I’m camped on a little ridge at the northern base of Blowout mountain. My tent is mere inches from the trail this time! I’m at mile 2355.3 which means I did 20 miles today!

I did about 17 grueling but beautiful miles today. I found a spot next to a huge talus field full of pikas. I thought this would be a low concentration bug area as it hasn’t been as bad north of Chinook pass.

Did about 18 miles today and I’m camped at Dewey lake. I’m fully suited up after taking a brief dunk in the lake. Tons of bugs here at this nice sandy lakeshore but even worse up at camp.

Round three of the PCT began today. Starting at White Pass this afternoon around 3 pm when my lovely wife dropped me off. Not too bad of a start, a little warm and kind of dusty, and horse poopy.

Actually it’s the next day from home, but it was a long day yesterday. Broke camp at 6:30! Made it up to Three Corner Rock and back to the PCT by 8:00 am.

Well, I’m finally back on the PCT! After a nice day in Cascade Locks and dinner in Stevenson my wonderful wife dropped me off in Stabler at the start of a 30 mile southbound adventure back to Cascade Locks and hopefully, my fully intact car.

Actually it’s the next day but who’s keeping track. My dry spot didn’t stay dry for very long. After setting up camp it started sprinkling again.

Managed to break camp around 9 am or so after waiting for the rain to stop so I could pack up the tent. It rained off and on all night but I managed to stay dry.

Well, it was dry most of the day. Early this morning around 4 am I woke up to some light drizzle on the tent. It only lasted 30 or 40 minutes. When I got up at about 6 am everything was pretty much dry.

Mosquitos are driving me nuts! I’m camped at about mile 2257 on the map at the end of a little ridge with a pretty good view. Part of the view is of clouds coming in from the south west.